No patches and its the official english. I saw it in a bargain bin in co-op for like ?4 i forgot about it for ages, and there it was!! So yeh i haven't been able to play with it since i bought it because of the whole xp thingy. I sent an email to Acclaim telling them my problem and the spec of my PC. I recived an email back, "This game is not xp supported", thats all i got from them!!

If the patcher fails then you can always duplicate what it should be doing: Do a normal Machines install and then download the machines.exe that this patch installs. Simply copy it into the install directory. (Default install directory c:\program files\acclaim entertainment\machines). I awlays recommend taking a backup of course but then you can always reinstall if nothing else